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Learn Brazilian Portuguese with Songs – Apesar de Você

posted on October 19, 2012

Here is our new lesson from the series Learn Brazilian Portuguese with Songs. In this lesson we use the song Apesar de Você, by the brilliant Chico Buarque. This is a beautiful and moving samba. It is a heart to heart conversation between the artist and the dictatorial, violent, oppressive Brazilian government of the time. Below is our lesson, and below it a powerful video of the song with pictures of protests during the dictatorship. This video never fails to move me. The lyrics are at the end of post.

In this lesson we discuss the political context in which the song was written and we tell you about Chico Buarque, this incredible Brazilian artist who comes from a very intellectual and influential Brazilian family.

You will also get language tips, of course. I am confident that you will find this lesson helpful. We show you how to use apesar de, discuss the confusing words amanhã, manhã, and de manhã, and tell you the difference between café de manhã and café da manhã. But the best part is when Susanna shares a big gaffe she committed by mixing up two Portuguese words that are similar but mean very different things. Watch our lesson to make sure you don’t make the same mistake in your next date 🙂

The video series Learn Brazilian Portuguese with Songs is a collaboration between Susanna Zaraysky, author of the book Language is Music, and Luciana Lage, from Street Smart Brazil, co-author of the book 51 Portuguese Idioms – Speak Like a Brazilian. In these lessons we use Brazilian songs to teach you Portuguese and we contrast Spanish and Portuguese to discuss pronunciation and grammar. Make sure you check out the previous videos on our Blog and on our Youtube Channel.

Chico Buarque de Hollanda

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[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7xRtSUunEY]

Lyrics:

Apesar De Você
Chico Buarque

Amanhã vai ser outro dia

Hoje você é quem manda
Falou, tá falado
Não tem discussão, não
A minha gente hoje anda
Falando de lado e olhando pro chão, viu?

Você que inventou esse Estado
Inventou de inventar
Toda escuridão
Você que inventou o pecado
Esqueceu-se de inventar o perdão

Apesar de você
Amanhã há de ser outro dia
Eu pergunto a você onde vai se esconder
Da enorme euforia?
Como vai proibir
Quando o galo insistir em cantar?
Água nova brotando
E a gente se amando sem parar

Quando chegar o momento
Esse meu sofrimento
Vou cobrar com juros. Juro!
Todo esse amor reprimido
Esse grito contido
Esse samba no escuro

Você que inventou a tristeza
Ora tenha a fineza
De “desinventar”
Você vai pagar, e é dobrado
Cada lágrima rolada
Nesse meu penar

Apesar de você
Amanhã há de ser outro dia
Ainda pago pra ver
O jardim florescer
Qual você não queria

Você vai se amargar
Vendo o dia raiar
Sem lhe pedir licença

E eu vou morrer de rir
E esse dia há de vir
Antes do que você pensa
Apesar de você

Apesar de você
Amanhã há de ser outro dia
Você vai ter que ver
A manhã renascer
E esbanjar poesia

Como vai se explicar
Vendo o céu clarear de repente
Impunemente?
Como vai abafar
Nosso coro a cantar
Na sua frente
Apesar de você

Apesar de você
Amanhã há de ser outro dia
Você vai se dar mal, etc e tal
La, laiá, la laiá, la laiá

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About Luciana Lage

I’m Luciana, founder of Street Smart Brazil. I am so happy to be able to help you in your Portuguese speaking journey! Teaching Portuguese as a foreign language was one of the best things that could have happened in my life. I’ve had the privilege of teaching Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of San Francisco. Now I am fully dedicated to the Street Smart Brazil community.

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